• The Measurement of Diversity 

    Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; XU, Yongsheng (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)
    The notion of diversity is an issue that is of relevance in several contexts. For example, the biodiversity of a given ecological environment and the diversity of the options available to a decision maker have attracted some attention in recent research. ...
  • Ranking Sets of Objects 

    Barberà, Salvador; Bossert, Walter; Pattanaik, Prasanta K. (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)
    We provide a survey of the literature on ranking sets of objects. The interpretations of those set rankings include those employed in the theory of choice under complete uncertainty, rankings of opportunity sets, set rankings that appear in matching ...
  • Similarity of Options and the Measurement of Diversity 

    Bossert, Walter; Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; XU, Yongsheng (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2002)
    This paper analyzes the measurement of the diversity of sets based on the dissimilarity of the objects contained in the set. We discuss axiomatic approaches to diversity measurement and examine the considerations underlying the application of specific ...